Child and Adolescent Psychology Objectives

After a month of babies, I am moving to a very different patient care setting… Child and Adolescent Psychology! In this rotation I hope to practice the skills I have gained in previous rotations and continue to complete head-to-toe monitoring plans and create patient-specific goals of therapy. I hope to continue to work on ensuring I have been thorough and diligent in coming up with alternatives and using that to justify my recommendation. I believe the pharmacist’s role in mental health is likely profound, given all the nuances of pharmacotherapy in this population, I am excited to explore this role in this rotation!

My rotation specific objectives include:

To be able to be well-versed in the nuances (PK, PD, pharmaceutics, etc.) of the therapeutic alternatives within the major psychiatric drug categories (e.g. antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, stimulants, anxiolytics and hypnotics)